#1 (permalink) Wed Jun 13, 2007 22:57 pm What does phrase mean: "he stood me up"? ... We were supposed to have a date last night at the park but he stood me up. (a) didn't come; (b) forgot; (c) took me somewhere else; (d) pretended he didn't know; English Idioms and Expressions, Intermediate level;
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He never showed for our date ... (more) ... Last night the guy I've been seeing for a while stood me up. He said he would come over at 8pm but never showed. This isn't the first time this has happened. At 9:30, I gave up and left the house. Before leaving, I sent him an email telling him how hurt I felt.
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In his defense, when he naps he turns the ringer off because his mom usually does call him when he gets home and he just calls her when he gets up. So there is a chance, he has done that. ... I got stood up! Beatnik Dating 7 12th January 2006 10:34 PM...
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Stood up - How to deal with rejection. ... This week's letter comes from a guy who's been stood up by his blind date. Should he give their first date a second chance despite her weak excuses?
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International Standard Version (©2008); Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,
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When her teenage love, David, failed to turn up for a date, Maureen Hawkins was snapped up by someone else. ... We'd chatted for a while and then David asked if he could see me again. ... For the next three months we met up a couple of times a week. But then, without any explanation, David didn't turn up on a date we'd arranged.
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BHO later tries to convey that he courageously stood-up to the auto industry. In fact, what he did was offer a federal subsidy to pay for their out-of-control private sector union benefits in exchange for proposing inefficient command and control CAFE standards on manufacturers.
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Payne Ratner said, "Japs are not wanted and not welcome in Kansas," and that he'd call up his National Guard to ensure they wouldn't cross his border. ... It will articulate a period when fear superseded reason and one governor, described at his death as "a friend to man," stood up when everyone else sat down.
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He stood up to the president! And, the ad he's got running over and over in Michigan says, he hates war! ... Sure, he stood up to the president . . . but you can still see the skid marks on his knees. He now wants offshore oil drilling. And he opposed Lieberman-Warner even though it's virtually identical to his own...
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To be sure, in order to do this he had to sacrifice much of his country's independence of action to a rival power. He had to give up important economic advantages accruing from the proximity of a huge American market and access to American technology.
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